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Topic: Kraken Experiencing Ongoing DDoS, Received Extortion Letter and Will Not Pay (Read 658 times)

legendary
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In Cryptography We Trust
Kraken is a well respected exchange. I hope everything will end up well for Kraken. It's pure shit that some people are DDoS'ing an exchange when they know it affects so many people. They obviously don't care. They just want money.

I agree. Kraken is the best exchange to trade BTCEUR. Most liquid market and fastest and cheapest SEPA transfers.
legendary
Activity: 1946
Merit: 1007
Kraken is a well respected exchange. I hope everything will end up well for Kraken. It's pure shit that some people are DDoS'ing an exchange when they know it affects so many people. They obviously don't care. They just want money.

They are hoping to earn some money out of it, as evidenced by the extortion letters.. It sucks yes, but it also forces kraken to update their security, so that's a good thing.

It is also my to go exchange if I want to exchange bitcoin to fiat, so I don't want them to go down to shit like this.
legendary
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Kraken is a well respected exchange. I hope everything will end up well for Kraken. It's pure shit that some people are DDoS'ing an exchange when they know it affects so many people. They obviously don't care. They just want money.
hero member
Activity: 798
Merit: 1000
Move On !!!!!!
Wow this is pretty bad. I hate seeing this happening to Kraken since I really like their services and I never had any problems whatsoever with them. I hope they will get back to normal soon, since these DDoS attacks with them are really going on for a moment.

Also, just yesterday I have sold a small amount of bitcoins with them without any problem. I received SEPA this morning as well. I guess I was lucky!
legendary
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Merit: 1005
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I had no problems to log in to my account. Everything's back to normal. This is their latest tweet
https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/669347128079052800
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1001
In Cryptography We Trust
This kind of things happen all the time with exchanges.
Kraken has been under intermittent DDOS attacks lately but right know the site is up and running without any issues.
hero member
Activity: 910
Merit: 1000
Wow, that's pretty bad. Their service has been suffering a lot lately and losing customers because of it. I hope they can fix this quickly enough. I also use them from converting to fiat.
legendary
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Merit: 1070
uh the thing is serious, well i'm not leaving my coins on any exchange so i'm safe, i hope they can sort this out, since i'm always using their exchange for converting in fiat
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